The Case of the Awkward White Feminist (Ep44)

In the recording of the call, Jennifer models what it means to be unapologetic around issues relating to women. She talks boldly about birth control, about abortions as a reproductive right, about being child-free, and about her relationship with women of color and queer women.

In the close out, I talk about my desire to talk about feminism as I thought it could be the route to talking about gender. I have more experience in talking about race (as opposed to gender) so I thought a conversation about feminism would give me an opportunity to explore what it means to be female in a sexist world structure. But, with Jennifer (like with Dr. Monique Liston from Ep30 and Dr. Dara Nix-Stephenson from Ep32), I learned that it is quite difficult to talk about gender without talking about race.

Needless to say, I learned a lot in my conversation with Jennifer about gender and race from the perspective of a white woman who aims to be critical and socially just (the embodiment of the awkward white feminist). Please click here (11/6/18) and join me in the lesson.

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Key Points Discussed:

The right to control what happens to the body as relating to reproductive rights

Striving to do it right (feminism) while acknowledging that one is going to do it wrong

White feminism and the lean-in movement

Remembering race while forgetting it in friendships

Being child-free versus being childless

Staying in your lane as an idiom that belongs to black women

Intersectional feminist and womanist as terms that white women cannot use

Gender as a social construct

Masculine and feminine energy as related to gender

Unschooling/alt-schooling

White people doing racial justice work with other white people (as opposed to doing it with people of color)